“To train our imagination to ‘go visiting’“- Editorial
While working with the articles in the current issue of the Graduate Journal of Social Science, my thoughts turned to Hannah Arendt’s idea on the political and knowing subject as a visitor. My train of thoughts took this direction because all four articles in this issue in one way or another relate to the site of knowledge production, problematizing method/ological points of departure and theoretical positionings.
When Arendt compares the process of critical thinking with the idea of the visitor, she focus on the stories that constitute the official frame we inhabit, stories originating from different persons and their wide range of different perspectives. To be able take into consideration the standpoints of others, their acts and judgements, Arendt writes that we need to train our imagination to ‘go visiting’. As visitors, we are then ready to abandon our private and subjective conditions and will have the possibility to transform our individual perceptions to thinking from the standpoint of other persons in a common world (Arendt 1978: 50, Benhabib 1996: 187). read more....
Index [PDF].
Editorial
Mia Liinason, "To train our immagination to 'go visiting'", pp.1-4 [ PDF].
Articles
- Lee Wing Hin, Centering the Center: Finding the ‘Hetero’ in Heteronormativity, pp. 5-32 [PDF].
- Jonathan Stilwell, Beyond Rainbows and Butterflies: Environmental Politics and the Scale and Scope of NGO Activities, pp. 33-48 [PDF].
- Andy Martin, Self-reflection on emergent research design, pp. 49-70 [PDF].
- Jennie Olofsson, Negotiating figurations for feminist methodologies - a manifest for the fl@neur, pp. 71-93 [PDF].
Book Reviews
- Highmore, Ben (2006) Michel de Certeau. Analysing Culture. Review by Isaac Marrero (pp. 94-97), [PDF].
- Phillips, A. (2007) Multiculturalism without culture. Review by Khadija Abbasi (pp. 98-102), [PDF].
- Walton, Ellie and Sam Wild (2007) ‘Chocolate City’. Documentary film. Review by Melissa Fernandez (pp. 103-107), [PDF].
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